Ironing-board.



D. C. STEWART.

IRONING BOARD.

APPLICATION men SEPT. 9, m5.

1,186, 1 43. Patented June 6, 1916.

/Z 3440mm DAVID C. STEWART, 0F KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

IRONING-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1916.

Application filed September 9, 1915. Serial No. 49,702.

To all whom it may concern:

, Be it known that I, DAVID C. STEWART, a citizen of the United States,residing at Knoxville, in the'county of Knox, State of Tennessee, haveinvented a new and useful Ironing-Board; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved ironing board having collapsiblesupporting means, and an object of the invention is to provide simpleand efiicient supporting means for the board, a member of which meansmay be thrown up against the under surface of the board, so that skirtsand the like may be hung upon the board, and in which case additionalmeans is provided for reinforcing or bracing the board and holding thesame firmly, so as to withstand all the pressure required for ironingvarious articles.

In practical fields the details of construction may necessitatealterations falling within the scope of whatis claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combinations of parts, ashereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the improvedironing board and its supporting means constructed in accordance withthe invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 22 of Fig. 1, showingparts in elevation, and showing one member of the supporting means forthe board thrown up against the under surface of the board in dottedlines. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the board showing the supportingmeans therefor collapsed.

Referring more especially to the drawings, 1 designates the usual formof ironing board, and secured on its under surface adjacent one end is acleat 2. Secured to the ends of the cleat, by means of suitable screws 3pivotally are supporting racks or legs 5 and 6. The supporting rack 5consists of opposite members 7, which are connected by the rungs 8. Whenthe racks or legs 5 are used to support the board, they extendsubstantially vertically. The racks or legs 6 consist of the oppositelydisposed members 9, which are connected by the rungs 10 and 11. When theracks or legs 6 are used for supporting the board, they extend angularlyor upon inclinations, and pivotally carried upon the rung 10 is a bracebar 12, having a notch 13 in its lower end, to receive the lower rung 8of the legs or racks 5, to hold the two racks or two sets of legs 5 and6 relative to each other, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. Alsosecuredto the under face of the board adjacent its other end are two cleats14:, arranged spaced apart from each other and in parallelism. Extendingtransversely of and connecting the cleats at corresponding opposite endsof the cleats is a pin 16, which extends through a slot 17 of the brace18. The lower end of the brace is grooved, as shown at 19, to receive orengage the rung 11 of the legs or racks 6, to support the smaller end ofthe ironing board. However, the brace 18 may be arranged, as shown indotted lines in Fig. 2, adjacent the under surface of the ironing board,and between the cleats 14. In this case, however, a hook 20 pivoted in astaple 21 at the large end of the ironing board is arranged, so that itshook end will engage the lower rung 8 of the legs 5, thereby bracing orreinforcing the ironing board, and holding the same firm, in order towithstand great pressure, that may be applied upon the smaller end ofthe board, when ironing skirts or the like that may be fitted on theboard. The cleat 2 has a V-shaped notch 22, to receive the hook, whenthe supporting means is collapsed, as shown in Fig. 3.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and usefulis In combination with an ironing board, supporting means for one endthereof and including an angularly downwardly extending rack extendingtoward the other end of the board, a pair of cleats arranged inparallelism and secured to the under surface of the board at itsopposite end, a pin extending transversely of the cleats at one end ofthe cleats, a slotted brace mounted upon the pin and between the cleats,the pin extending through the slot, one end of the slotted In testimonywhereof I have signed my brace havlng' a groove to engage e rung of nameto tl11s speclficatlon 1n the presence of the lower end of the angularlyextendlng tWo subscrlblng wltnesses.

rack to support the other end of the board, DAVID C. STEWART. saidslotted brace adapted to be disposed in Witnesses:

parallelism between the cleats when not in E. B. HENsLEY,

use. A. F. FORD.

copies: at this patent may be obtained for five eente each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). G.

